synthetic biology Archives

Engineering biology in defence: four example uses

Homeland December 16, 2021

Writing for Defence Online, Dr Nicolette Moreau, Research Scientist at QinetiQ & Research Fellow at University of Bristol, examines the use of engineering biology in defence. According to The Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC), synthetic biology (or ‘synbio’) is: “the design and construction of new biological entities such as enzymes, genetic ...

Tim Gibson, Fujitsu and Head of Defence at techUK, speaks exclusively with Head of Content, Victoria Maggiani.

Video overview: synthetic biology and beyond battery power

December 14, 2016

The Defence and Security Accelerator recently opened two competitions. One is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. Professor Petra Oyston and Professor Bryn James explained what they were looking for: https://youtu.be/uyKm9sPavek The other competition is looking for technologies that will reliably ...

For this competition CDE are interested in new synthetic biology for transparent materials that are thinner, lighter and offer better ballistic protection.

CDE themed competition: synthetic biology for transparent materials

November 2, 2016

This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. There are many military uses for transparent armour. For this competition CDE is interested in new transparent materials that are thinner, lighter and offer better ...

LATEST STAKEHOLDER

Become a Stakeholder today and benefit from an exclusive marketing package which will allow you to:

Engage with active defence buyers and key supply chain partners

Create your own branded micro-site which within Defence Online which is managed by you

Have a dedicated Digital Account Manager to help enhance your Stakeholder page

Promote your news, products, press releases, eBooks and Videos as a Defence Online partner which feeds through to our homepage and social media channels

Have your company promoted on our partner website Defence Contracts Online (DCO)

All news promoted in mynewsdesk, a major hub for all of our news articles which enables news to be picked up from trade magazines, national newspapers and many other publications which offers extra exposure at no additional cost!

Contact us today or call us on 0845 557 1315 to take advantage of this exclusive marketing package

May 3, 2024

Air - QinetiQ has successfully trialled the UK’s first Crewed-Uncrewed-Teaming

QinetiQ has successfully trialled the UK’s first Crewed-Uncrewed-Teaming demonstration between a crewed aircraft and an autonomous jet drone. The trial –